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ADAA
With great sadness, we report the death of ADAA Executive Director Alies Muskin on Sept. 22. She died at age 59 of complications of breast cancer.
"So many people tell us that just knowing that they are not alone is empowering," she said. Alies believed that the stigma about mental health issues could change for the better with input from patients, families, loved ones, clinicians and researchers. She never wavered in promoting the message that the illnesses are treatable.
You can make a donation in honor of Alies and her accomplishments in improving the lives of millions. As she said many times, "Everyone is able to make a difference in the lives of those they love."
Donations can also be mailed to ADAA at 8701 Georgia Ave., Suite 412, Silver Spring, MD 20910.
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Deadline is Oct. 16.
The Huffington Post
Five years ago, psychiatrist R. Dale Walker was invited to a small Northern Plains reservation that had suffered 17 suicides in eight months. It was there, listening in a group therapy meeting, that he first heard the phrase "grieved out." Walker, who specializes in American Indian psychiatric issues and is himself a Cherokee, felt overwhelmed at the toll that suicide was taking on reservations and Indian communities.
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U.S. News & World Report
Demi Lovato had it all going for her. Before she was even old enough to get her driver's license, she had starred in TV shows and films, signed a record deal and released her first album. "I had this amazing career, yet I was depressed," she said. At age 18, Lovato "hit a rock bottom," she says. Due to various mental health and emotional issues, she halted her tour in South America to enter rehab back in the United States, where she was diagnosed with bipolar disorder.
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BBC News
Children's Commissioner for England Anne Longfield says children do not have the confidence to go to the doctor with mental health issues. A small survey of youngsters suggests 62 percent have done a general internet search on issues such as depression. The government said it was promoting greater use of counselors in schools.
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The Atlantic
Whenever Sarah sees a Facebook post of a smiling friend holding a newborn baby, she breaks down. It's not that she dislikes her friends. It's also not that she envies their motherhood; Sarah has her own healthy baby girl. But she doesn't have her own postcard-perfect photo like that, capturing the first moments of a new family's joy. What she has instead are memories that continue to haunt her.
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The JED Foundation
National survey examines the challenging transition from high school to college for many young adults. Among the most critical findings, the survey revealed that 60 percent of students wished they had more help getting emotionally ready for college. Further, students who felt emotionally unprepared compared to their peers were more likely to report poor academic performance and a negative college experience. The results also highlight gaps in mental and emotional support and resources for students around this transition.
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The Lancet
Treatment-resistant major depression is common and potentially life-threatening in elderly people, in whom little is known about the benefits and risks of augmentation pharmacotherapy. Researchers aimed to assess whether aripiprazole is associated with a higher probability of remission than is placebo.
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JAMA
The Aug. 4 issue of the Journal of the America Medical Association focuses on violence and human rights. Papers include a narrative review of psychotherapy trials for military-related PTSD, a systematic review of PTSD screening measures and a trial of mindfulness-based stress reduction for PTSD.
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Depression and Anxiety
Most patients with post-traumatic stress disorder suffer from sleep problems. Concerns have been raised about possible detrimental effects of sleep problems on the efficacy of psychological treatments for PTSD. In this study, we investigated the relation of session-to-session changes in PTSD symptoms and sleep, and tested whether sleep problems predicted poorer short- and long-term treatment outcome.
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Psych Central
Choosing the antidepressant that works best can be a struggle. A new study published in JAMA Internal Medicine shows that a simple series of conversation cards can dramatically improve patient and physician satisfaction with the discussion on the choice of antidepressant.
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HealthDay News
Experiencing high levels of mental stress at any point in life — even if only in childhood — may raise the risk for heart disease, stroke or diabetes in adulthood, a new study suggests. The findings were reported online Sept. 28 in the Journal of the American College of Cardiology.
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The Journal of Nervous and Mental Disease
This double-blind, sham-controlled study sought to investigate the effectiveness of cranial electrotherapy stimulation (CES) for the treatment of bipolar II depression (BD II). After randomization, the active group participants (n = 7) received 2 mA CES treatment for 20 minutes five days a week for two weeks, whereas the sham group (n = 9) had the CES device turned on and off. Symptom nonremitters from both groups received an additional two weeks of open-label active treatment.
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Quartz
Anxiety disorders tend to run in families, but anxious parents don't have to sit back and fret as their children develop the same disorders. Preventative therapy could stop kids from becoming overly anxious, according to research published in The American Journal of Psychiatry.
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Reuters
Scientists studying people with depression say brain scans could be used to predict who is most likely to relapse, an approach that could help doctors make better decisions about who should stay on antidepressants and who should stop. In a small study of 64 patients, the researchers found that significant differences showed up in brain scans of those who later went on to have a recurrence of their depression.
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HealthDay News
Troubled people who have weight-loss surgery are more likely to attempt suicide following the procedure, a new study suggests. These patients were about 50 percent more likely to try to take their own lives after they lost a lot of weight, while more than nine of 10 suicide attempts involved patients with a history of mental health problems, the Canadian researchers found. The study was published online in the journal JAMA Surgery.
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Medical News Today
Older adults who have little face-to-face contact with family and friends are at almost twice the risk of developing depression, according to a new study published in the Journal of the American Geriatrics Society. What is more, the study found that regular contact with others over the telephone or through email does not offset the risk of depression associated with lack of in-person contact.
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Medical Xpress
Patients taking benzodiazepines to treat psychiatric conditions should consider transitioning to other therapies because of heightened risks for dementia and death, according to clinicians from the American College of Osteopathic Neurologists and Psychiatrists. Benzodiazepines include branded prescription drugs like Valium, Ativan, Klonopin and Xanax.
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Boston University via Futurity
The statistics are grim: Veterans of the conflicts in Iraq and Afghanistan have a 41 to 61 percent higher risk of suicide than the general U.S. population. The risk is far higher than what veterans from earlier wars have experienced. A new study points to a biomarker that might bring researchers a little closer to the goal of better predicting — and perhaps treating — PTSD and suicide risk: a gene called SKA2.
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